While it might seem early to begin thinking about the holidays, if you are an IT operations leader, October is a critical month. You have only six weeks to take a hard look at your IT infrastructure and make sure you’re ready for the IT surges during the holidays. Obviously, it doesn’t take a holiday-season surge to crash your service. But for many companies, holidays are when stakes are highest and IT workloads are at a peak.

Peak demand periods, like the holidays, can create wild surges for IT operations and incident management. If you’re not ready you can earn your business a spot in the web crash hall of shame, like Victoria’s Secret’s infamous 1999 crash after its Super Bowl ad caused its website to crash. Over the next six weeks, you’ve got a window to prepare for peak demand and test your IT systems while there’s still time to fix infrastructure issues before the holiday rush.

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